The University of Louisiana System board on Oct. 22 approved two agreements under which UL Lafayette leases about 5 acres of the former Pecan Island High School property to an affiliated nonprofit for $1 a year, which subleases it to SpaceX in exchange for property improvements, the Louisiana Illuminator reports. If improvements are delayed, SpaceX would owe fair-market rent, and a purchase is anticipated next year, with sale terms not yet disclosed. The lease cites facilitating SpaceX's planned $100 billion Starbase Louisiana project; the improvements list has not been released.
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Microsoft on Monday announced a new Voluntary Exit Offer for eligible employees in participating teams in the US, Canada, India and the UK at level 70 and below. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman's memo says it "builds on what we learned" from April's Voluntary Retirement Program. About 60,000 people, roughly a quarter of its 223,000 staff, are eligible, the company told GeekWire. A person familiar told CNBC that employees decide in December and leave Dec. 31. Some groups, including sales, aren't participating, and Microsoft says the offer doesn't replace layoffs.
Apple unveiled the new iPad mini on Oct 26. It has an 8.5-inch OLED display (nano-texture optional), the A20 Pro chip, a 5.4 mm IP67 body, a landscape-edge Center Stage camera and N1 with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. It starts at $699 for Wi-Fi and $849 for Wi-Fi + Cellular, runs iPadOS 27, and the $79 TechWoven Smart Folio launches with it. Pre-orders open Wednesday Oct 28 (MacRumors: 10:10 a.m. PT, 1:10 p.m. AST), with availability Nov 6. It arrived days before Apple's "Pro and tell" media event, per The Verge.
Anthropic, PBC filed a Form S-1 with the SEC on Oct 26 for a proposed IPO of its Class A common stock, which it intends to list on Nasdaq as "ANT". The share count and price range are not set, and the registration statement has not yet become effective. The filing reports $16.3B revenue and an $80.7B net loss (mostly a $72.4B non-cash fair-value charge) for the six months ended June 30, 2026, and describes its PBC and Long-Term Benefit Trust governance.
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE announced a collaboration on Oct 21 introducing Industrial AI Agents at the Edge: OT-monitoring, cybersecurity and energy-optimization agents that run on HPE Private Cloud AI and are managed through Schneider's EcoStruxure Industrial Insights apps. The release gives no availability date; CMPC Chile is cited as a three-year user of Schneider's OTMS monitoring that the agents would build on.
